Tiger Woods hits the ball off the edge of a bunker on the 13th hole during the third round Saturday of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. / Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports

by Steve DiMeglio, USA TODAY Sports

by Steve DiMeglio, USA TODAY Sports

SAN DIEGO â?? Starting on the back nine in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday and on the edge of contention, Tiger Woods arrived at the 18th tee at 2-under par and seven shots behind the leaders. He pumped a 300-yard drive into the middle of the fairway and was just 254 yards from the green at the par-5.

One solid shot and one or two putts later he would be back in the mix.

Thirty minutes later he was out of contention.

Ninety minutes later he was gone.

In a shocking result in his season debut, the world's No. 1 player and defending champion made two double-bogeys in a row, then made five consecutive bogeys en route to a 7-over-par 79 that sent him eastward back to his Florida home.

Woods, who shot 72-71 to make the cut by one shot, finished at 6-over par -- with a 42 on his front nine in the third round -- and did not make the secondary cut Saturday. That was necessitated by too many players earning their way into the weekend.

It is the first time Woods made the cut but did not finish the tournament (an MDF in golf speak, which stands for made cut, did not finish). It does not count as a missed cut â?? Woods has missed just nine in his career.

Woods, who did not give any indication of injury, did not speak to reporters after the round. But one of his playing partners, Jhonattan Vegas, said the round "proved that Tiger is human."

"I don't know what was going through his head, but it was really different to see him play like that," Vegas said. "You don't expect to see that out of him. But it happens to the best. He's human just like the rest of us."

For the first time in Woods' career at Torrey Pines, the place he owns with seven wins in the Farmers Insurance Open and another in the 2008 U.S. Open, the course owned him. The 79 was his worst score since a third-round 79 in The Memorial last year. His worst score came when he shot 81 in the second round of the 2002 British Open.

He did not make a single birdie on the par-5s this week, going 0-for-12 and finishing 4-over par on them.

His 79 was just the fourth time he was over-par in 57 rounds at Torrey Pines during the Farmers Insurance Open.

And Sunday will be the first time he isn't playing in the final round in his 14 starts in the Farmers. Last year he won the event by four shots.

His demise started on the 18th (he played the back nine first), when he dumped his second shot into a water hazard and eventually made double-bogey 7. An errant approach on the next hole and a missed tap-in putt led to another double-bogey. The last time Woods made back-to-back double-bogeys was in the second round of the 2011 PGA Championship.

On his next hole, the par-4 second, he missed another short putt and made bogey. On the next hole he three-putted for another bogey.

He added bogeys on the fifth and sixth holes before finally halting his bogey train with a birdie on the seventh hole. His tipped his cap to the crowd and took a bow to acknowledge the end of his poor play.

He finished his round by making a 10-foot par putt, which enabled him to break 80.

Woods will play in next week's Omega Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates.